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"God Is A Weapon" · FR Falling In Reverse

"God Is A Weapon" · FR Falling In Reverse
EXERCISE 26 OF 36
Fill at bar 112 (a small one)
113 / 120 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesAECSFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play "God Is A Weapon" on drums

120 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:33 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
37/100

hi-hat through bars 1-82, snare through bars 83-108, hi-hat through bars 109-110, snare through bars 111-116, hi-hat through bars 117-118 and snare through bars 119-120.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-23 and 41-63 -- 38.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
"God Is A Weapon" -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 24, 64, 84, 85, 88, 89 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- A, C -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 21-42 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Bars 39-94 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is "God Is A Weapon"?

135 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is "God Is A Weapon" hard to play on drums?

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 6 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in "God Is A Weapon"?

9 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 24, 64, 84, 85, 88, 89 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED